OMG I’m so conflicted.. don’t want to read about bagging gnus and stuff, yet the big kittehs are so pretty and of course I know they do .. um .. do that and *sigh* I eat meat too, so really, who am I to talk? Maybe I’ll just look at the kittehs more. So sweet!!

And the poem! The poem! “Mama’s gonna slaughter a whole safari” Truly – I burst out laughing. And the “chinese food” line? I’m going to sing this to my cats because yes, I am a CCL and they would like it.

When I look at these pictures I always think “whoa, momma’s head alone looks bigger than the whole baby! While scary to think about, that must also be a source of comfort, as leaning against their parent’s body is like being sheltered by a small mountain”.

If you’re squeamish about eating gnu, this may not be the right stew for you, but if you squee when you see the lions, then I’m not lyin’ when I say that you should eat some of the stew, because it’s really, really good for you.
(grasps own elbow, etc.)

When my kitteh used to snuggle against me, I used to think that the ratio between me and him (as an adult) must have been about the same as his mama and him (as a wee tiny bebeh). Think about it….. Well, it made sense at the time!!

I’ve had ox tail soup made from an African lady (when I was visiting Ireland – how’s that for weird?). Did NOT settle well on the tummy. I barely kept it down and my friend threw up about an hour later.

I don’t know how Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern handle some of the things they eat.

Aww, this makes me want to go back on Safari. We saw some adorable lion cubs playing around while Momma Lion lazed around in the background. Much cuter than the lion we’d seen earlier who was dragging dinner home (and got extremely peeved at us and almost jumped on our vehicle). *note to self, next time on safari go in vehicle in which roof pops up, not one in which you remove the roof panels and chuck in the back seat*

I used to sing Dumbo’s mother’s lullaby to my children (the not-furry ones) when they were babies, but really… I would have to sing NOMTOM’s lullaby to them now (excepting they’s all growd up these days).

Oh my, we had the pop tops. I wouldn’t have wanted to be in a “no sides” vehicle when the Cape Buffalo charged at our van. (He did stop short, thankfully.)

Of course, then there was the day they let us stupid tourists out to wander around the riverbank with hippos and crocs everywhere. Let’s just say I and another lady were almost lunch for two crocs.

In our defense, OUR van driver neglected to give instructions like they were supposed to. AND there were a couple military armed (machine gun) guards up on the top of the riverbank so we *assumed* they were there to protect us. Wrong. They were there since the river was the divider between two countries and a popular “sneak across the border” area. There job was to shoot people, not animals.

And we saw lions take down or saw carcasses they’d taken down of hippos and cape buffalo so that’s why I said earlier the poem/song should have had those creatures and leave out the gorgeous giraffes!

I have a video from our safari where a pride of lions took down a water buffalo – really gross and it took a long time. I didn’t film it personally but it is part of the extended video of one safari day a companion took. It must have been separated from it’s herd and didn’t have the protection of numbers but it put up quite a fight so I don’t think it was ill.

This post, its wonderful song, is, not to put too fine a point on it…
addictive, i shall visit eet over and over. Went to Brian’s flickr site to say “wow”.
and to NTMTOM and to Sea Oh… a resounding “can’t thank you enuff…evar!”